by hellmutt » Sun Apr 01, 2007 3:49 pm
CONOP:
Operation Gallant Saber III
June 23 - June 24 2007
SITUATION:
MUGAMBI,
Thousands of young men and boys, many of whom have committed atrocities while fighting in West Africa’s brutal civil wars, face re-recruitment into the region’s emerging conflicts. International efforts to disarm these fighters must provide them with alternatives to war. Mugambi and Guinea, two countries marked by growing political instability, are the current theaters into which these young fighters are being drawn.
Gallant Saber II was witness to Major VanHoosling's violent take over where he assumed the Presidency of Mugambi in a bloody coup . After driving the US Marines back into the sea with an intense insurgency operation, VanHoosling is believed to have sold the oil and mineral rights of the Peoples Republic of Mugambi to Total Fina Elf for $100,000,000,000. VanHoosling immediately bought a private island in the South Pacific and departed the country after distributing the fortune to his surviving men. He spends his time laughing and counting his money on his private, solid gold beach.
In the void that was created with his departure, impunity and impoverishment has fueled a pattern of extreme violence. Time and again, these fightersÂmost of whom began their military “careersâ€